I think it becomes paranoid about everything and everyone.

And the Jivelli regime, like many other Haitian regimes, was brutal.

But Jivelli pushed it to an extreme.

Either you were completely for him or you or against him.

You can remain neutral.

He already saw enemies everywhere.

Now he had justification for seeing enemies everywhere

because the fact that he had their enemies everywhere.

He felt extremely vulnerable

and he felt he was in need of a petroleum guard, really.

And that's where the Tonton Macoo came from.

There were murderers, thieves, people who were serving time.

And there were recruited from there and given weapons and a blank check

to do whatever the value asked them to do.

If your president is in some sense synonymous with this supernatural taker of lives,

then he is not to be messed with and Jivelli would have relished that.

D'Evalier thought of himself as a little guard

and as a little guard who would rule Haiti in his own way.

We saw a ruthless man exercising power only 800 miles from the US shores.

A yacht makes its way through the choppy waters of Porto-Pranse Bay,

45 miles off the coast of the Caribbean nation of Haiti.

On board are eight men, five Haitians, three Americans.

...